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US Plant Patent PP7493

Moorpark Orange

Gazania plant called Gazania rigens `Moorpark Orange`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 12, 2009. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

The record

Patent number
PP7493
Filed
April 12, 1989
Granted
April 9, 1991
Expires
April 12, 2009

Abstract

A perennial hybrid Gazania groundcover which is distinguished by the deep orange color of its flowers and its green trailing foliage. In addition, the invention plant is floriferous, vigorous, and disease and frost tolerant.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Gazania as described and illustrated, particularly characterized by its floriferous showy deep orange flowers, green foliage, vigorous growth, and trailing habit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7493 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.